An emergency response crew in Laurel, Montana, clean a section of the Yellowstone river affected by the ExxonMobil oil spill. Photograph: Reuters
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Oil executives criticised for conflicting accounts of breach and regulators accused of failing to ensure safe operation...
Op-Ed
Climate change and disaster in Montana (click title to entry - thank you)
The flooding of the Yellowstone River and the oil spill in the riverbed are connected, and the burning of fossil fuels is the key.
July 7, 2011
...But my conversation with Bonogofsky was four full days before the pipeline began pouring oil into the Yellowstone River. And no, it's not that she's psychic; she was talking about this year's historic flooding.
"It's unbelievable," she said. "It's like nothing I've experienced in my lifetime. It destroyed houses; people died; crops didn't get in the fields…. We barely were able to get our hay crop in."Everyone agrees that the two disasters — the flooding of the Yellowstone River and the oil spill in the riverbed — are connected....
There is this continuing dialogue about the petroleum industry that always contains the same content, DESTRUCTION and DEATH. When is the government going to get their minds around this and end the suffering for this nation from an industry that has no conscience !
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"It's unbelievable," she said. "It's like nothing I've experienced in my lifetime. It destroyed houses; people died; crops didn't get in the fields…. We barely were able to get our hay crop in."Everyone agrees that the two disasters — the flooding of the Yellowstone River and the oil spill in the riverbed — are connected....
There is this continuing dialogue about the petroleum industry that always contains the same content, DESTRUCTION and DEATH. When is the government going to get their minds around this and end the suffering for this nation from an industry that has no conscience !
Crews work to clear oil from along the Yellowstone River in Laurel, Mont., on Tuesday. (Jim Urquhart, Associated Press / July 5, 2011)
Exxon oil spill on Yellowstone River disrupts farms
By Emilie Ritter
Reuters
Wed, Jul 6, 2011
HELENA, Montana (Reuters) - Governor Brian Schweitzer (click here) vowed on Tuesday to cling to Exxon Mobil like "the smell on a skunk" for as long as it takes to get the company to clean up a weekend oil spill that fouled an otherwise pristine stretch of the Yellowstone River in Montana.
A 12-inch Exxon pipeline ruptured on Friday night about 150 miles downstream from Yellowstone National Park near the town of Laurel, Montana, southwest of Billings, dumping up to 1,000 barrels, or 42,000 gallons, of crude oil into the flood-swollen river.
Toxic fumes from the oil overcame a number of people who reported breathing problems and dizziness and were taken to local hospitals. But state and federal officials on Tuesday said they lacked a tally of health problems or the number of riverside homes that were evacuated after the accident....
Yes, indeed, it is only a weekend oil spill. It isn't as though it has gone on for three months and caused an entire coast to be destroyed. No, no, nothing like that. After all the American people are so resilient and can withstand all kinds of death and destruction,. this is simply something else we need to take on the chin after all.
Yes, indeed, it is only a weekend oil spill. It isn't as though it has gone on for three months and caused an entire coast to be destroyed. No, no, nothing like that. After all the American people are so resilient and can withstand all kinds of death and destruction,. this is simply something else we need to take on the chin after all.
Exxon Mobil Corp. says leak could extend far beyond 10-mile stretch
By MATTHEW BROWN
7/5/2011 8:28:34 AM ET
LAUREL, Montana — The scope of Exxon Mobil Corp.'s oil leak into the Yellowstone River could extend far beyond a 10-mile (16-kilometer) stretch of the famed waterway, the company acknowledged under political pressure Monday.
As the company intensified its cleanup of tens of thousands of gallons (liters) of spilled crude, Exxon Mobil Pipeline Co. President Gary Pruessing pledged to do "whatever is necessary" to find and mop up oil from the 12-inch (30-centimeter) pipeline that broke at the bottom of the river over the weekend.
The company had earlier downplayed assertions from state and federal officials that damage from the spill was spread over dozens of miles (kilometers). That drew sharp criticism from Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer, who planned to tour the damaged areas Tuesday.
Company officials said their statements were misconstrued, and Pruessing pledged that crews would begin walking the Yellowstone shoreline as soon as the flooding river recedes to look for pooled oil along the banks.
"We're not limiting the scope of our cleanup to the immediate site," Pruessing said at a news conference along the river near Laurel, as crews mopped up oil in the background. "We are not trying to suggest in any way that that's the limit of exposure."…
Just a couple of things, 10,000 gallons is NOT the same as 10,000 liters, so does someone want to get that right? Okay?
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July 7, 2001
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UNISYS Enhanced Infrared of the Northwest USA
This is the current map of the weather. There is a ridge between the north and south airmasses right now. It isn't easy to see on Infrared at this point, but, if the Arctic Air Mass (north air mass) decends within the next day or so which it looks as though it might because there is a vortex forming in the Arctic Oscillation south of Alaska, there may be more heavy rains. So to say there will be repair work done as soon as the river recedes is NOT realistic.
EXXON-Mobile needs to bring one of their deep water dive teams to the Yellowstone River and STOP THE DAMN LEAK NOW !!!!!!!!!!
The all knowing and all seeing Petroleum Industry knows what to do, they can call Halliburton and have them bring in one of those concrete caps that collect oil so well in water. This time it might actually work becuase the leak isn't a mile down in the Oean !
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Just a couple of things, 10,000 gallons is NOT the same as 10,000 liters, so does someone want to get that right? Okay?
1800:13z
UNISYS Enhanced Infrared of the Northwest USA
This is the current map of the weather. There is a ridge between the north and south airmasses right now. It isn't easy to see on Infrared at this point, but, if the Arctic Air Mass (north air mass) decends within the next day or so which it looks as though it might because there is a vortex forming in the Arctic Oscillation south of Alaska, there may be more heavy rains. So to say there will be repair work done as soon as the river recedes is NOT realistic.
EXXON-Mobile needs to bring one of their deep water dive teams to the Yellowstone River and STOP THE DAMN LEAK NOW !!!!!!!!!!
The all knowing and all seeing Petroleum Industry knows what to do, they can call Halliburton and have them bring in one of those concrete caps that collect oil so well in water. This time it might actually work becuase the leak isn't a mile down in the Oean !
Wed, Jul 6, 2011
Reuters
Oil mixed with water from an oil spill along the Yellowstone River is pictured in …
Well, what a joy. Once again, we are looking at water and oil mixing in precious waters that fish and wildlife depend on . It is so magnificent to see, espeically when vacationing to see the great outdoors in the beautiful, or is ONCE BEAUTIFUL United States of America. Why is it I don't see any fish of any kind swimming by? So, now when young people ask their parents, "Where are all the fish, Daddy?" they can reply, "Dead because our alligence to the petroleum industry over our own children has yet destroyed another ecosystem." Ah, the wonders of big business.
